Text Visual Video / Charles Moulton

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Charles Moulton

Breakfast is the cruelest meal. It lives in a territory between dreams and reality – between night and day. Everyone is a child when they wake up and are granted the indulgences of a child. After breakfast they are adults. No one is spared. In the first scene of the fairy tale the characters are assembled in a cottage deep in the forest sitting around a rough-hewn wooden table. The dappled morning sunlight shines through the windows as they eat oatmeal and discuss how happy they are. They could be farmers, or dwarves or animals that speak. Their identities don’t matter. They are smiling and laughing. They are untouched. Eventually the plot will move forward and terrible things will happen. They will be separated and imprisoned. They will be acted upon in unspeakable ways. But they are safe in this moment.

Nothing bad happens until after breakfast.

Charles Moulton is an award-winning Choreographer, Visual Artist and Writer living in Oakland, California. He has created works on dance companies all over the world and is particularly known for his signature work Ball Passing which can be performed by dancers and non-dancers alike. His visual art has appeared at galleries in Oakland and at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. He began his career dancing with Merce Cunningham, is a Founding Co-Director of Performance Space 122 and is currently Co-Artistic Director of Garrett + Moulton Productions in San Francisco.